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I pointed out that this declaration was extorted from unwilling China by the demand of America; and that laborers were henceforth to be classed, in the enumeration of American public law, with paupers, lazzaroni, harlots, and persons afflicted with pestilential diseases.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar critiques the classification of laborers in American law, comparing them to marginalized groups.

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